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COREG

CARVEDILOL

Coreg (Carvedilol) is an alpha and beta blocker. It lowers blood pressure by slowing heart rate, relaxing blood vessels, and lowering the body's fight-or-flight response. Source: Iodine *

*This description is for related drug Carvedilol

At a Glance: This Drug in 2015

15.4K
Medicare Part D Claims

Rank: 1169 of 3395

$4.85M
Retail Cost

Rank: 1163 of 3395

3,160
Patients

Rank: 1274 of 3395

3,532
Prescribers

Rank: 1164 of 3395

More info on related drug Carvedilol »

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53%

of people say

it's worth it

46%

of people say

it worked well

18%

of people say

it's a huge hassle

Alternatives:

Atenolol Propranolol Lopressor Toprol XL Bystolic Norvasc Lisinopril Losartan Hydrochlorothiazide

This Drug's History

Claims

The number of Medicare prescriptions for this drug each year

19.6K

2011

18.5K

2012

18.7K

2013

17.5K

2014

15.4K

2015

Spending

The total Part D spending on this drug
each year

$3.53M

2011

$3.78M

2012

$4.32M

2013

$4.59M

2014

$4.85M

2015

Average Patient Cost

Average amount that patients without a low-income subsidy paid each year.

$291

2011

$348

2012

$326

2013

$341

2014

$345

2015

Use by state

State	Patients	Claims	Cost
New York	361	1,862	$600K
New Jersey	303	1,398	$524K
California	303	1,341	$449K
Florida	270	1,242	$400K
Texas	210	951	$292K
Pennsylvania	161	757	$244K
Ohio	114	593	$158K
Illinois	109	479	$169K
North Carolina	95	473	$138K
Georgia	93	440	$118K
Michigan	100	398	$146K
South Carolina	95	394	$98.2K
Virginia	71	350	$107K
Alabama	63	321	$98.1K
Louisiana	47	298	$81.1K
Indiana	53	287	$84.6K
Missouri	37	257	$64.1K
Massachusetts	40	245	$82.7K
Arizona	51	211	$70.3K
Tennessee	43	197	$61.7K
Connecticut	42	179	$60.4K
Mississippi	31	178	$45K
Minnesota	35	172	$61.4K
Maryland	44	166	$65.9K
Kentucky	42	166	$53K
Washington	32	165	$51.1K
Wisconsin	26	148	$42.5K
Iowa	29	137	$36.1K
Nebraska	19	132	$28.1K
Oregon	35	127	$40.5K
Oklahoma	23	113	$36.5K
Colorado	23	108	$33.5K
Hawaii	18	98	$31.9K
Maine		72	$17.9K
Arkansas	13	71	$27.2K
West Virginia	15	65	$15K
Utah	12	57	$15.3K
New Hampshire		48	$16.5K
New Mexico	12	47	$16.7K
Kansas	12	46	$14.7K
Delaware		36	$13.2K
Nevada		28	$11.4K
Rhode Island		26	$5,906
Idaho		23	$6,316
District of Columbia		19	$6,324
South Dakota		13	$700
Montana		13	$2,144
North Dakota		12	$2,526

About This Data

Prescribing data from Medicare’s prescription drug benefit, known as Part D, was compiled and released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees the program. The data for 2015 includes more than 1.4 billion prescriptions written by nearly 1.4 million doctors, nurses and other providers. This database lists about 447,000 of those providers who wrote 50 or more prescriptions for at least one drug that year. More than three-fourths of these prescriptions went to patients 65 and older; the rest were for disabled patients. Methodology »

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Top prescribers for COREG

Provider	Medicare Claims	City	State
ALEXANDER COHEN MD Family Medicine	Claims Filled73	DARLINGTON	South Carolina
JAMES NEAHRING M.D. Cardiovascular Disease	Claims Filled54	NEWBURGH	Indiana